Hi guys, I was recently browsing some quotes out of boredom, and saw one said by Jobs:
“The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel – one that reads like a mystery to most people. They’re not going to learn slash q-z any more than they’re going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.”
I can understand the meaning behind it but got curious about the phrase “slash q-z” as it seems not to be a common word and cannot find much about it on Google.
Edit: thanks for all the wonderful answers guys, it’s really interesting to look back see how far we’ve come from.
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Another point to remember if that in the 70s, unlike today, there was no standard keyboard. Different manufacturers had different layouts, and even different range by one manufacturer could be different. Producing a program that would work on a wide variety many you had to rely on the standard characters
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